Radio broadcasting was the cheapest form of entertainment, and it provided the public with far better entertainment than most people were accustomed to. As a result, its popularity grew rapidly in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and by 1934, 60 percent of the nation's households had radios.

Command Performance

Broadcast History: 1 March 1942 to 20 December 1949 and 7 October 1945 to 21 April 1946

A surprising fact about this series is that all talent was donated, in other words no one received payment – not even the stars. This was even more remarkable when you see the list of stars who contributed to the entertainment. Stars of the silver screen like Charles Laughton, Red Skelton, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, to name but a few. Anybody who was anybody got in on this act and those guys serving away from home were glad of it.

When the war ended it was decided that it would still be necessary to carry on producing the show and it continued to be broadcast to the serving men and women of the United States Armed Forces right up to the end of 1949.

CMP440506 - Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton [262]
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CMP440520 - Paulette Goddard, Jimmy Durante, Louis Armstrong
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CMP440527 - Dinah Shore, Dick Haymes, Virginia O'Brien [262]
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CMP440603 - Bob Hope, Garland, Sinatra, Crosby [262]
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CMP440603 - Connie Haines [372]
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CMP440610 - Bette Davis, Jimmy Durante, Artie Shaw [262]
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CMP440617 - Jack Benny, Bing Crosby, Harpo M
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CMP440624 - Maxine Sullivan, Nelson Eddy, Tommy Dorsey [262]
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CMP440708 - Claudette Colbert, Jimmy Durante, Ronald Colman
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CMP440722 - Ronald Coleman, Ginny Simms,Ida Lupino [260]
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CMP440730 - Barbara Stanwyck, Dick Haymes, Linda Darnell [262
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CMP440805 - Ginger Rogers, Virginia O'Brien [260]
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CMP440819 - Judy Garland, Danny Kaye, Helen Forrest [262]
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CMP440826 - Fred Allen, Jack Benny & Rochester, Ginny Simms [
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CMP440902 - Betty Grable, Beatrice Kaye, Phil Silvers [262]
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CMP440909 - Groucho Marx, Georgia Gibbs, Kenny Baker [262]
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CMP440913 - Bob Hope, Johnny Mercer, June Allyson [269]
 6.53 MB

CMP440923 - Martha Raye, Jack Carson
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CMP440930 - Deanna Durbin, Jack Benny, Ginger Rogers [262]
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CMP441007 - Dinah Shore, Art Tatum, Chico Marx
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CMP441014 - Compilation - Highlights of 1944 [271]
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CMP441026 - Clark Gable, Joe Bushkin, Gary Simms [258]
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CMP4410xx - LDarnell, MTilton, WAllen, Amos and Andy, FMorgan [458]
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CMP441101 - Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, Fred Allen [269]
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CMP441101 - Ethel Merman, Eddie Heywood, Connee Boswell [269]
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CMP441107 - Claudette Colbert, Bob Burns, Tommy Dorsey [269]
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CMP441108 - Fred Waring, Kate Smith, Louis Prima, PBailey [26
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CMP441118 - Thanksgiving 1944 [260]
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